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South-North convergence from a new perspective
Hübler, Michael - 2013
-North convergence based on North-South technology diffusion through intermediate goods trade is guaranteed if the knowledge effect … dominates the productivity effect. Moreover, a larger Southern market expands the area of convergence and can prevent divergence … convergence is desirable for both, the South and the North. …
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Fiscal rule and public investment in Chile
Fuentes S. M., J. Rodrigo; Schmidt-Hebbel, Klaus; Soto, … - 2021
This paper reviews the design and operation of the Chilean fiscal rule in the past 30 years. Using different empirical approaches, we assess its impact on fiscal procyclicality, public debt, and public investment. While there has been substantial progress in building a modern institutional...
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Fiscal rules and public investment : the case of Peru, 2000-2019
Mendoza Bellido, Waldo; Vega, Marco; Rojas, Carlos; … - 2021
This article has three goals. First, it describes the genesis of fiscal rules in Peru and its degree of compliance. Second, it estimates the effect of fiscal rules adoption on public investment. Last, it analyzes the impact of alternative fiscal rules on public investment and public debt...
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Industrial clusters and economic performance in Brazil
Pires, José Claudio Linhares; Cravo, Túlio; Lodato, Simon - 2013
Industrial clusters, which are commonly targeted to receive financial support allocated to locally based development projects, are seen as an effective industrial policy tool for improving productivity and generating employment. Nevertheless, identifying clusters and assessing their economic...
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Regional convergence and economic performance : a case study of the West German Laender
Buscher, Herbert S.; Felder, Johannes; Steiner, Viktor - 1999
In the paper we analyze the convergence process of the West German Laender from 1970 to 1995 using descriptive tools as … convergence was insufficient in the sense that no gains have been achieved with respect to a stronger harmonization of the …
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Identifying and disentangling the impact of fiscal decentralization on economic growth
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge; … - 2019
This paper revisits the relationship between fiscal decentralization and economic growth by addressing the endogeneity issue stemming from reverse causality and unobserved factors that has plagued previous extensive literature on this subject. In our approach, we use the Geographic Fragmentation...
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A personalized VAT with capital transfers : a reform to protect low-income households in Mexico
Kotlikoff, Laurence J.; LaGarda, Guillermo; Marin, Gabriel - 2023
The Value-Added Tax (VAT) is the most prevalent consumption tax globally, yet it is frequently deemed highly regressive. To address this, we propose a Personalized VAT (PVAT) devised in conjunction with a distributional policy. We aim to achieve three objectives: increase revenue collection,...
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Regional stabilization by fiscal equalization? : theoretical considerations and empirical evidence from Germany
Büttner, Thiess - 1999
In the context of EMU fiscal equalization schemes have been proposed as a means to stabilize regions against asymmetric shocks. A theoretical analysis shows that besides reducing the cross-sectional income variance the redistributive element of fiscal equalization causes incentive effects for...
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Regional effects of federal tax shocks
Hayo, Bernd; Uhl, Matthias - 2012
This paper studies regional output asymmetries following U.S. federal tax shocks. We estimate a vector autoregressive model for each U.S. state, utilizing the exogenous tax shock series recently proposed by Romer and Romer (2010) and find considerable variations: estimated output multipliers lie...
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Vocational schools as an instrument of interregional competition : empirical evidence from German counties
Bischoff, Ivo; Hauschildt, Julia - 2017 - Version: May 17, 2017
The German apprenticeship system is widely known throughout the world. We analyze expenditures on vocational schools on county level using data from 213 West-German counties between 2001 and 2006. We use spatial econometrics to test for spatial correlation in counties' expenditure on vocational...
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